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Claudine Hauri founded the new program called Girls in Icy Fjords, which is a tuition-free wilderness expedition at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where high school girls use science and art to explore Alaska’s coastal landscape. The program aims to inspire girls to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and build their confidence to succeed in male-dominated fields.
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October 5, 2017 | 12pm, 401 Akasofu- Karen Taylor, Kaja Brix, and Tina Buxbaum will discuss better collaboration in the scientific research environment.
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September 27, 2017 | 2:30pm, 401 Akasofu- Cristina Schultz will discuss how over the past several decades, the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has undergone physical and ecological changes at a rapid pace, with winter air temperatures warming up to 4.8 times the global average rate.
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Friday, September 29, 2017 | 10:00–11:30am EST One Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC Join us for a SEARCH presentation on change and connections
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Bob Bolton and Amy Breen, Assistant Research Professors at IARC hosted California’s Governor Jerry Brown in a field trip to research sites on the Seward Peninsula near Nome and Council.
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September 14, 2017 | 2:30pm, 401 Akasofu- Kevin Berry will discuss how forests continue to be reservoirs for infectious diseases and undermines the potential recreational services by measuring the human response to environmental risk using exogenous variation in the risk of contracting Lyme Disease.
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The report highlights significant changes and record breaking temperatures in the Arctic and Alaska. Compared to lower latitudes, the Arctic is warming at more than twice the rate with 2016 being the warmest year for Alaska since 1925.
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The new National Science Foundation project, dubbed “Winterberry,” aims not only to engage Alaskans in research on berry resources but also to find ways to make the findings more valuable to communities.
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August 4, 2017 | 1:30pm, 401 Akasofu- IARC’s visiting REU students will be presenting their work that covers an array of components of the Arctic system.
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August 7, 2017 | 12pm, noon, 401 Akasofu- Max Yaremchuk will discuss a modified gaussianization technique for ice concentration data from satellites.
